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Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:17:30 +0200

Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it. This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.

How To Manage Your Servers With Rex - Best Practice

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:21:24 +0200

How To Manage Your Servers With Rex - Best Practice

(R)?ex is a server orchestration and configuration management tool. With (R)?ex you can manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment. In this guide I will show you with the help of a project how to use (R)?ex to configure your servers and how to deploy software.

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Qmail Mail Server

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:10:49 +0200

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Qmail Mail Server

This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Qmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.

Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:26:51 +0200

Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)

This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers. Features include an SQL editor with syntax highlighting and built-in profiling of SQL queries.

Build A Free, Full-Featured Mail Server On Gentoo Linux With iRedMail

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:50:32 +0100

Build A Free, Full-Featured Mail Server On Gentoo Linux With iRedMail

We're going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on Gentoo Linux, all mail service related components are free and open source, and you own all data. The installation process is extremly easy and smooth.

How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:06:38 +0100

How To Securely Destroy/Wipe Data On Hard Drives With shred

Sometimes you need to destroy or wipe data from hard drives (for example, before you sell your old hard drives on eBay) so that nobody else can access them. Simply deleting data (e.g. with rm) is not enough because that just removes the file system pointer, but not the data, so it can easily be undeleted with recovery software. Even zero'ing out your hard drive might not be enough. Here's where shred comes into play - shred can overwrite the files and partitions repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:10:58 +0100

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Sendmail Mail Server

This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to the Sendmail mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.

How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:03:38 +0100

How To Set Up A TOR Middlebox Routing All VirtualBox Virtual Machine Traffic Over The TOR Network

This tutorial will show you how to reroute all traffic for a virtual machine through the Tor network to ensure anonymity. It assumes a standalone machine with a Linux OS, and VirtualBox installed. In this case, we'll be using Ubuntu on the host machine.

Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:19:39 +0100

Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack

Webuzo Wordpress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated version of Wordpress and is pre-configured and ready-to-run.

Hardening Postfix For ISPConfig 3

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:25:59 +0100

Hardening Postfix For ISPConfig 3

The goal of this tutorial is to harden the mail server postfix used by ISPConfig for internet mail servers where authenticated users are trusted. With this setup you will reject a great amount of spam before it passes into your mail queue, saving a lot of system resources and making your mail server strong against spammers and spam botnets.

Simple Linux Auditing

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:12:15 +0100

Simple Linux Auditing

Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this led me to put together a Open Source code project and develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from SourceForge's website and the project website has links to documentation, help, installation and code.

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:52:20 +0100

AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server

This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to a Postfix mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012.

How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:14:24 +0100

How To Install RoundCube 0.7 For ISPConfig 3 On Debian Squeeze

This will guide you thru the installation of the latest stable version of RoundCube (currently version 0.7) and get it to work together with ISPConfig 3. This guide should work for most Linux distributions but may differ on some parts.

How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:50 +0100

How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)

This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

Simple Bash Script To Work As A Daemon

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:40:48 +0100

Simple Bash Script To Work As A Daemon

If you need some snippets or codes to run for ever, but not more that one instance, you need to rapidly check the code, or script and if it has died! It's the time to run it again. To be sure of this function, just add the following lock handler at the top of your script